NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
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NATIONAL DEFENSE
WORLD ťAR
WORLD WAR
NAVY
NATION
U. S. Shipping Board announces 44 ships totalling 263,571
tone, completed and delivered during key, greatest
record in nation's history. I-I; Je &, 1318
Diamond Shoals lightship off Cape Ratteras, N. 0., is
shelled ana eunl: by German submarine August 7. 1918.
1-6; At 8, 1918
Coast Guard station and lighthouse on Smith Island off
North Carolina are attacked by German submarine using
poison gas, August 10, 1918. 1-1; At 13, 1918
German raiders cut French trans-Atlantic cable out of an
American port; operation of cable hae been restored.
1-7; H 10, 1911
German submarine torpedo** and sinks Coast Guard cutter,
"Tampa/ off coaet of England September 25, 1918; four
St. Petersburg tmn are lost; they are; Pisi Webb, Harold
Myers, ftilllam Newell and Lesley Noble. 1-3; 0 4, 1918
Director general Fcbwab of Emergency Fleet Corporation
reports all previous records broken in delivery of 60
merchant ahipe by American yards in August 1918. 1-3;
S 5, 1818
United Stales i*avy has lost 44 ships. 1-3; D 11, 1918
Ensign Joe Still of St. Petersburg is assigned to the
work of building base city of 8,GC0 men for Unite*
States Navy at Fanillac, France, Hi b, 1-1; D 29, 1918
PIHELLA8 COUSTT GUARD
Newly formed Finellas County Boat Guards eleot Lew B.
Brown, captain; S\ J. Mack, first lieutenant; H. B,
Jones, second lieutenant; Horace Williams, second
lieutenant. 6-3; Je 8, 1SI7
Elks company B, rinelias county Guards at St. Petersburg,
elect a. r. Aveiy, eept >in; J. .. 3hallcroae, and Roy
V. Sellers, *aQuad lieutenants. 1-1; Je 18, 1917